Here is another image from the Jökulsárlón Iceberg Lagoon. I have also posted a gallery of Iceland Images under the gallery menu of this blog.
It’s Cold So More Ice It Is
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Jökulsárlón – Iceberg Lagoon, Iceland
This another one of those images that you could probably never reproduce. It was shot at 2AM approximately and I was hanging around the iceberg lagoon shooting a ton of great images. Then the light came and boy did it come. I have a few dozen spectacular shots. Then it was gone , just like that. This was shot with a Phase One IQ 180 so the detail is amazing. I have a 4×6 foot image of one of the shots in this series in my office.
Side Of An Iceberg
Ever wonder what the side of a giant 50 foot high iceberg looks like? Well here it is. Traveling in Antarctica we convinced our captain of the boat we were cruising on the get us as close to cool icebergs as he cold. He was more than happy to help us. This is the side of an iceberg and it is just beautiful with the color and things happening. You can see melting, re-freezing and a gorgeous random texture. This was shot from around 50 feet away using a 70-200mm zoom on a Canon 5dII.
Seal and Iceberg
One more image from today’s image edit session. While cruising on a Zodiac around the Iceberg Graveyard we happened to spy a leopard seal. Nasty animals. As we cruise by his iceberg island I saw another Iceberg in the distance. I waited for the shot to line up and bang, I got it.
Berg
I usually can be found editing my images with coffee or wine. Today I had my coffee going through some of my Antarctica images. I have been cataloging my past work using CApture One 7 a cool program by Phase One. I found this image in my search and have a bunch more I am working on. I kept coming back to this one though because it just seems to work. Once I cropped to almost square it even worked better. I really do love Antarctica.
The Journey To New Zealand Begins
I love going to all the great places that I can to photography. What I don’t like is airports and airplanes and the process of getting there. Today I start out my journey to New Zealand to host a Phase One PODAS workshop there. I start my journey in Indinapolis and fly to Detroit, from there to Los Angeles and then to Sydney and from sydney to Queenstown, NZ. That’s a lot of hours in planes and airports. I have done it before and will do it many times again. the iPad is loaded with books, magazines and TV shows I can catch up on. I have special drugs mixed with a view glasses of wine that will make time travel faster. And, fortunately I usually get off the plane and forget that I juts took the trip. It’s all worth it especially in NZ because I’ll shoot so many great places. So stay tuned, I’ll update the images here as often as I can.
Norwegian Ice
I am excited because I leave in a few hours for my 40th class reunion back in Wayne, PA. HArd to believe it has been 40 years. I’ll be meeting up with some old firefighting buddies and visiting some people I haven’t seen in a very long tome. Best of all I’ll be eating breakfast at my all time favorite breakfast place Joe’s Place. Three mornings of breakfasts there should do me for a while. Today’s image is from a glacier in Norway. Light and the color of the ice make it a beautiful image.
It’s Ice Time
For the next few days I’ll be posting images from my previous three trips to Antarctica. It’s the ultimate adventure and I will be making a trip there in 2013 and 2014. People ask if there is one place I like the most in all my travels where would it be. Simple answer – Antarctica. There is truly no place like it anywhere. The images I have taken there and sites I have seen will be with me to the day I die. Truly an amazing place to visit. This shot was made in the Gullet. Usually Ice choked we were able to navigate it on one of the most incredible bright days and still days ever. The water was as smooth as a mirror. The sky a deep blue that was astonishing. And the ice and reflections were so fantastic. I will post more from the Gullet and elsewhere. Hope you enjoy this.
Storms and Ice
Antarctica when it gets mean is really mean. Here you can see a storm approaching and giant icebergs in the foreground. Taking pictures in Antarctica is an amazing experience. Photo rich environment doesn’t come close. Dynamic ever changing. This image was shot with a long lens 200mm on a Canon 5dII.
Iceland Ice
Ice is so incredible. IT is not cliched. You can’t take a pictures of a glacier or ice berg and come back in an hour and shoot the same shot. It’s dynamic. Here today gone tomorrow. That’s one of the reasons I love shooting ice in many parts of the world. So, todays image was made at the very popular Jökulsárlón lake or lagoon in Iceland. Movies have been shot here and it is visited by almost everyone that comes to visit Iceland, but it usually never fails to give incredible images. This image was made this past June at 3:30 AM. It doesn’t get dark that time of year but the light does change for just a little while. It gets cold and blue and an erie kind of color is there, almost light with out color. So, I shot this with a long lens with the moon coming up. I have another from this same series I will publish later.